With Pokemon Go’s Mega Rayquaza Elite Raid Day event almost over, the community seems to have largely dubbed it a “huge fail.”
Many fans felt frustrated by the high difficulty level of Elite Raids as well as the fact thatthey are in-person only. As such, many trainers view them as inaccessible to the broader community.
With the latestElite Raid Day event featuring Mega Rayquazawinding down, many players have already dubbed it a “huge fail” for various reasons.
According to posts on thePokemon Gosubreddit, fans viewed the event as a letdown because of how spread out the Elite Raid Eggs were.
One player in Tokyosaid, “I think its safe to say Mega Rayquaza raid day was a huge fail,” and explained that, although they were downtown, there were never any Raids less than a 40-minute walk from each other.
Many agreed with the OP and said the distance between active Elite Raids was too far despite being in heavily populated areas.
Another big contention point surroundingElite Raids is the disadvantages rural players face.
A fan from the UKexplained, “I live in a rural area within the United Kingdom… Our local public spaces have plenty of stops and gyms to last you a bit of time and yet even after a quick stroll, not one of those gyms has a single Rayquaza raid on it.”
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They claimed that even if Mega Rayquaza Raids had appeared more often, they wouldn’t have had enough players to complete it anyway.
It seems unlikely that developer Niantic will make adjustments in the future, consideringElite Raidshave been around for nearly two years already with no significant changes to their format.
Philip Trahan was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in Pokemon, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, RPGs, JRPGs, and Nintendo franchises. He also has bylines at NintendoEverything and GameRant.
